Media Center + Zune + Xbox 360 + Slingbox = :D

Media Center + Zune + Xbox 360 + Slingbox = :D

Ok so this post isn't really related to UC at all, but what the hey ...

Over the Christmas/New Year period I finally got around to playing with my media setup at home (yep, I'm a geek alright). I now have the following hooked up and working nicely:

40" Sony Bravia HDTV

Media Centre PC (Vista Ultimate Edition)

Xbox 360

Xbox Live (Gears of War rocks)

Xbox 360 acting as a Media Centre Extender

Zune (yes I got a brown one - and I like it!)

Bose noise-cancelling headphones (I spend a lot of time on planes)

SlingBox Pro

So now I have an almost-perfect media experience wherever I am (actually that kind of is related to UC - where I also have all a perfect communications experience wherever I am!).

At home I can stream music, TV and movies to whatever room I am in; if I'm on a plane I have all of my music and most of my movies on my Zune (I used to have an iPod Mini then a Creative Zen Micro, but with the excellent screen and battery-life on the Zune I will never go back); and I can watch my TV at home from anywhere in the world via the SlingBox (handy when I'm in the USA and the rugby is on TV).

I was using 3rd party software to convert it (as I record in HD) - but I lost my Zune at TechEd so I don't do it anymore :(

Good reason to get a Zune 2.0 though ;)

Daniel

29 Apr 2009 12:02 AM

Please provide me a list of necessary updates to get Xbox 360 to connect to Windows Media Center Extender. I CAN get on Xbox Live , my DMA2200 Extender works, but I CANNOT get XBox 360 to find my Computer. I have Vista Ultimate x64. I did all the updates I could find. I have a WRT330N Gigabit Gaming Router. I disabled firewall. Opened all required ports. What is going on with my XBox360. I haven't used my XBox 360 for over 1/2 year and never tried hooking up Extender on it before. Any help would be greatly appreciated. You can contact me at danielkowalec@yahoo.com